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Tar Sands Blockade wins sponsorship deal from Kryptonite bike locks
A corporate sponsorship seems counter to the blockade's politics, but it may be a means to ending the pipeline.
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Monsanto flirts with disaster, owns the world anyway
Just three years ago, the agribusiness giant was a laughingstock. Thanks to its friends in government and the courts, and new industry alliances, it's back with a vengeance.
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New gasoline rules are good for your lungs and bad for Big Oil
The Obama administration is proposing to slash sulfur content in gasoline by two-thirds, improving your air and pissing off oil execs.
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Energy secretary nominee Ernest Moniz has deep ties to oil, gas, and nuclear industries
He's served on advisory boards for BP, GE, and a uranium company, and the center he runs at MIT gets corporate funding from Shell and Chevron.
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Chris Christie slams ‘selfish’ homeowners blocking coastal protection measures
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, some owners of oceanfront properties in New Jersey are stymieing efforts to build sand dunes to block storm surges. They're worried about views and privacy.
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Obama creates five new national monuments
He is protecting land on the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington state, creating a monument to Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railway in Maryland, and more.
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Sustainable food loses its biggest champion in Washington, D.C.
Kathleen Merrigan promoted local and organic foods in an agency that has for years been infatuated with big commodity ag.
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Senate gives a big, fat thumbs-up to Keystone XL
The vote was non-binding but all too telling. On Friday, the Senate voted 62 to 37 in favor of building the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline.
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State Dept. hid contractor’s ties to Keystone XL pipeline company
A top expert who helped write the government's latest Keystone report previously consulted on three different TransCanada projects -- a fact the State Department tried to hide.
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The dumbest tweet about the Earth is this one from Rep. Steve Stockman
Rep. Steve Stockman, of Texas' 36th, wants you to know that he appreciates the planet.
